The Very Best of The Muppet Show Volume 1 was released on VHS by Columbia TriStar Home Video in 1999 and on DVD in 2002, exclusively in the United Kingdom. It was part of a series of UK-exclusive compilation releases consisting of sketches, segments and songs from The Muppet Show.
It was followed on with The Very Best of the Muppet Show: Volume 2 in the same year, and the DVD-exclusive The Very Best of the Muppet Show: Volume 3 in 2004.
These kids outtakes segment from two volumes can be featured from the DVD version. The kids in the first two volumes, each 61 minutes long, were identified as the Children of Wheaton Evangelical Free Church Sunday School.
During the kids segments on the first two volumes, instrumentals of The Muppet Show, Hey a Movie, Rainbow Connection and the Mah Na Mah Na are heard.